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Friday, July 16, 2021
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Penryngarden
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Penryn CA
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Faith. 1938 Urena ( 3 lobe ). This was not my pick. 14 ft out, first practice pollination with the one male flower on the plant. Tried to pollinate 3 further with 4 lobes down the main. With the heat ??wave of 106 to 112 ...it was unfortunate, lots of flowers, ice, fanning in hopes of anything other than the first pumpkin set. Had a perfect one set at 16ft, set up the board and S curve....my chosen one. It was not to be. Aborted a few days ago. Each time I looked back at pumpkin#1. I kept looking forward to the day I slowly culled it. After the main was out 25 feet I finally gave in, and realized #1 set wants to grow. It's not pretty. A 3 lobe with a crossed line so it's lop sided. That's why I'm naming her Faith, because I had no faith in this pumpkin, but she had other plans. Day 26 - 250.5 OTT, My PB early on. With 85 growing days till the weigh off. She put on 40lbs yesterday. She won't win an HD award....but I'll let her grow big and have faith in my patch.
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